Oddly ironic. I clicked over to see how fast things were and got…

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.techcrunch.com/

The following error was encountered:

* Unable to forward this request at this time.

This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:

* The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and
* All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.

Doh!

… and two minutes later it was back and flying.

Does seem faster — any plans to share any tweaks or tuning?

You’ve obviously moved stuff around because it’s broken the Sponsors sidebar on here. Complaining it can’t find: http://techcrunch.com/wp-content/themes/techcrunch/sponsors.php

Ditto Mike, no sponsors here. TechCrunch still looks a little weird… I guess it’s the missing bits that haven’t been turned back on yet.

Anyway, Mike A, it would be very interesting to hear what changes were made to speed the site up. And did you ever consider moving to Movable Type, which seems to be marketed as the solution for blogs like yours?

Maybe MediaTemple are having a good day today… It might be slow again tomorrow… You never know with those guys, especially if using the grid (I know your not, but).

What hosting plan are you using at (mt)? Are you running the new SQL containers?

If anyone is curious about what changed, I made a fairly detailed post about what we (Media Temple) did to normalize the performance on the box over here.